PatchesToData[patches,ran]

creates a continous dataset from the patches. For each patch the range in the data nees to be specified in ran. The patches are have dimensions {x, y, z} each and ran is speciefied as {{xmin, xmax}, {ymin, ymax}, {zmin, zmax}}.

PatchesToData[patches,ran,dim]

creates a continous dataset from the patches with dimensions dim.